Elsa? Where is she?

We have not heard from her in a while...i hope that all is well.

Me too!

wow I agree that sounds like a lot.... I take a centrum/sublingual b-12 1000 mcg/chewable calcium in the am vitron c iron in the afternoon another chewable calcium at night. This is all my surgeon recommended....seems so much less than everybody. Oh well....I feel fine labs have been fine.

1 Flintstone Vitamin with breakfast, 1 Flintstone Vitamin with dinner B-12 sublingual, 3x a week. (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) 1 Biotin in the morning, for hair loss. Even though I do think my hair loss has stopped and re-growth has started. 4 to 6 Twinlab Calcium Citrate a day, 2 at a time. I usually only take 4 of them, because I eat alot of cheese, yogurt and drink skim milk so I think I am getting good calcium. Stacy

Will you e-mail her. I don't have her e-mail address.

Hi Sandra, Thanks for responding to my post. Believe me, losing 52 pounds is unbelievably super! I read your profile. You have had sooo many complications with your surgery. I have too, but you know what??? I never was able to lose 73 pounds before in my whole life..and this is only the beginning. You are probably depressed right now with the aftermath of all your health problems, starting a new job, moving to a new city, and trying to find a way to get in all the water, protein and exercise that will work for you and your new lifestyle!! Who wouldn't feel overwhelmed?? I know we all get depressed at times, but just remember the determination you had to get this surgery in the first place. You are already over that hurdle....now.....on to the next hurdle..and the next..and so on. Hold on and don't give-up Sandra. There is a light at the end of the tunnel..together, I'm sure we'll find it! HugsGinger

Sandra, 52 lbs is great! All this pain you are feeling with standing on your job will subside as there is less of you! This surgery is gonna work, it is working! Hugs, Lori 384/241.5/168

Sandra, Please give yourself more time and don't be so hard on yourself. We didn't get this way overnight, and it won't be fixed overnight. 52 lbs in essentially 3.5 months ... (!!!) ... and part of that time you were ill and struggling. Have you done the math on that? It's only a "hair" under an average of 15 lbs per month. I think you're doing wonderfully and am so happy for you! As for stretching pouches ... I have a "dilated" stoma ... my BS (who didn't do my surgery, BTW) says these things can happen, and it might have been the result of having that ulceration on my stoma suture-line for so many months that might have caused my stoma to relax a bit as it healed. But even so, I'm down 194 lbs today and still losing weight each month. So don't worry so much about that. OK? And yes, all of us feel like we've ruined our process somewhere along the line ... definitely count me in on that for sure ... but that's when we just have to go back to basics and start again. This is not a "screw up today so I might as well forget tomorrow cause I've ruined it" thing ... it's a "I might have screwed up today, but I'll start again tomorrow, and it WILL still work" thing. Please understand that nothing in this post is meant to be hurtful or judgmental ... honestly just the opposite ... I have been where you are, and I know how you're feeling, and I just want you to feel better about yourself and the future. Also ... I take Zoloft to help me keep the "hills and valleys" evened out ... my PCP started me on it before my surgery and my BS (both of them)agreed. You might want to talk with your docs about something like that and see what they think. (((((((HUGS))))))) Myra